American bee-keepers have set before them the project of breeding bees by a judicious selection of queens and drones ... And so far intelligent bee-masters have been partially successful; indeed, there is every reason to expect that the honey-bee of the future will be as different from, and as much more valuable than, "the little busy bee" of the past as an English shorthorn excels an Irish brindled cow.  

It is to be hoped that before the modern bee-breeders have obliterated the old distinct varieties those who have the opportunities will make careful coloured drawings, measurements of queens, drones, and workers, and further observations of all their peculiarities. It will be too late to attend to this branch of natural history when Apis americana, as we are told the new and improved bee of the "good 

SOURCE:
Lett, H. W. (1887). On the races of the honey-bee. Journal of Natural History, 20(116), 143-146.

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